Sammi Yeaman

Top Ten Facts

• Circe, a mythical sorceress had skills in metamorphosis. Metamorphosis is the power of illusion. Those were the powers she was given.
• Circe, the goddess of metamorphosis and Odysseus a Greek hero, he fought in the Trojan war.
• Odysseus a Greek god hero who fought in the Trojan war. Circe was a mythical sorceress. Odysseus stole her heart because he had to find a way to turn the swine back into men. Circe turned them all into swine because they came into their house and took advantage of her kindness and she didn’t like it. Odysseus and his men washed up on the shores on the Island of Aeaea, where Circe lived.
• Circe who was born in Aeaea is said to be the daughter of many different people. She is known as the daughter of the Sea Nymph Perseis who is the ruler of a kingdom called Persia and the Sun God Helios who is the titan of the sun god, he was also the guardian of oaths and the god of gift of sight. Circe was a metamorphic sorceress and lived on the Island of Aeaea.
• Circe was married to the prince of Colchis who is Medea. After their honey moon Circe killed him. She killed him when they were stealing the Golden Fleece, she murdered him in Colchis
• Circe is linked to the falcon birds because falcons are birds that are known as the “death-bird” and they are a predator like Circe. Circe encircled her human prey within her island home and turns them into swine. When Circe turns them into animals she keeps them on the Island of Aeaea.
• Circe made Glaucus who is a River God, a potion to use on Scylla who is a Sea Nymph to make her like Glaucus more. Scylla dislikes Glaucus very much and runs away whenever
  he tries talking to her. Circe makes Glaucus a potion that reverses the effects of a love potion and makes Scylla into a barking monster and serpents. Circe did it because she liked Glaucus and wanted him all to herself.
• When Circe was lonely at her palace on the Island of Aeaea, lost travelers would come to her door. When they would come to her door normally travelers would be treated as special guests but Circe would drug them and turn them into animals to serve her as she sees them fit.
• Homer, the author of the Odyssey referred to Circe as “Circe of the Braided Trees” because she can control fate and the forces of creation and destruction. The untying and tying of knots has been often used in folk-magic spells as a way of binding and releasing magical energy.
• Hermes the messenger god gave Odysseus a plant that would counteract her powers so he would not turn into swine like his men, Hermes gave him the plant so Odysseus could go home and turn his swine back into men. Odysseus ended up stealing Circes heart.

Sammi Yeamans Dramatic Writing Circe

Circe was a goddess of metamorphosis. She would charm people and they would become the animal she would believe them to be. Men were mainly pigs.

This decribes what metamorphism is. It is when your body changes from one thing to another. As a man would turn into a pig.

Odysseus and Circe had history together. This is what ties Circe into the Odyssey. She turned all his men into swine.

Swine, one of the common animals Circe would turn men into.

Explanation of music
I made the beginning sound serious and mysterious because Circe was all alone in her home.
The rest of the song is when Odysseus arrives at her house and she charms them all.
The men except Odysseus turn into animals, they didn't have swine sounds so I improvised.
The animal sounds are all the men turning into animals because that's what Circe does.

Explanation of colors
The colors I used were pink and purple because those are traditional girl colors and Circe is a girl.

Work Citedwww.theoi.com/Titan/Kirke.html
http://www.thanasis.com/circe.htm
www.pantheon.org/articles/c/circe.html
www.covenofthegoddess.com/goddesscirce.htm
www.angelfire.com/journal/ofapoet/circe.html
mythagora.com/bios/kirke.html